Commit Message

From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Load times for NICs that use i2c to communicate with the phy were taking
~4.5 sec per port. This fix first checks to see if the link is already
up before calling get_link_capabilities, since if it is we don't need
query the phy for link state.
Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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Comments

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:37:33 -0800
> Load times for NICs that use i2c to communicate with the phy were taking> ~4.5 sec per port. This fix first checks to see if the link is already> up before calling get_link_capabilities, since if it is we don't need> query the phy for link state.> > Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
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